Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-05-12
THE SCIENCE OF EATING.


The Dangers of Overlooking Ones stom-
ach-Stories About Children and Hints to
Them.
Some very essential things to a long
and comfortable life are substantial,
nurishing food. properly cooked and
properly eaten; and one very inn
portant point in proper eating is to eat
what is sufficient, and not what we are
more apt to do, to eat enough. 1t will
give you little study in word analysis
to look out the exact meaning of
''enough" and sufficient" and COM
pare them. It is habit with many
persons to eat all they want. to fully
satisfy their appetites. A glutton or
greedy person is rarely healthy or
happy, and more persons are injured
by overeating than by taking too little
food. did not admire the child, but |
was amused at his remarks when he de-
manded another cake at table. you've
had five or six already" replied his
mother. "Them amt the ones want;
I wants fresh one,n whined the little
cormorant.
It would surprise some of you who
indulge your appetites to know how
little of the proper kind of food is nee
essary to life and health. A gentle
man of high standing in his profession
as lawyer, past sixty, but as
active and vigorous as man
of forty, was asked by a friend
the secret of his perfect health. He
said: II eat PLAIN, wholesome break
fast, walk nearly three miles to my Of
fice-rain or shine, hot or cold, /
swing my legs over the ground. ]
take no lunch. and walk home at five
o'clock to dinner. make q hearty
dinner-no fancy dishes. no hot sauces,
no pies and buildings. no wine. am
frequently compelled to attend dinners,
banquets and festivals, but never
change my habits. !"
There is an old proverb-''One
mans food is another mans poison =
and, of course, it is impossi BILE to lay
down any rules as to what people in
general shall eat; but experience soon
makes it pretty easy matter for any
one of us to do this IN his own case.
Perhaps the largest statement as to a
nourishing diet, to be found outside of
an advertisement OF patent food for
invalids or children, is in the story
told by little girl:
Uncle John,'' said little Emily, edo
you know that baby that was fed on
elephants milk gained twenty pounds
in one weekp''
Nonsense! Impossible!'' exclaime d
Uncle John, and then asked: "Whose
baby was it?''
SIT was the elephants babyI'' said
little Emily.
heard of an Italian nobleman in the
sixteenth century, Count Cornaro. who
lost his fortune and his health while
quite young man by intemperance in
eating and drinking, and his physician
told him he had not long to live. But
he found himself very unwilling to die;
so he began to be very prudent in his
diet and habits. He found. by expert
menting, that twelve ounces of solid
food and thirteen ounces of liquid food
was sufficient for him. Gradually he
| recovered his health, but never changed
his habits of eating except to increase
the quantity of food to fourteen and of
drink to sixteen ounces at one time.
But he says:
Scarcely had I continued this mode
ten days when I began, instead OF be-
ing cheerful and lively rs before, to be-
come uneasy and detected, a burden to
myself and to others. On the twelfth
\ r -
violence. that for thirty-five days my
life was despaired Of But by
the blessing of God and my
former regimen, / recovered; and
now, in my eighty-third> year,
enjoy a happy state of both body and
mind. l can mount my horse unaid-
ed. climb steep hills. When re-
turn home from a private company, or
the Senate, I find eleven grandchildren,
whose education, amusements and
songs are the deli ght Of my old age.
myself often sing with them, for my
voice is clearer and stronger than it
was in my youth; and am stranger
to those peevish and morose humors
which so often fall to the lot of old
age"
When about to die he raised his eyes
and exclaimed, with great animation :
Full of JOY and hope, resign myself
to thee, most merciful God He then
disposed himself with dignity and closed
his eyes, as if about to slumber, gave a
little sigh, and expired. in his ninety
ninth year
Thomas Parr, of Shropshire, En-
gland, was farm servant who main
tanned himself by daily labor, and must
have lived on plain food he lived to
be one hundred and fifty-two years
| and nine months old, and is frequently
| mentioned in books IS ''Old ParE. :"
There is no guessing how much longer
he might have lived butfor the unlucky
| accident of the King of England hear
ing Of the great age OF his humble sub
iect and doing him the honor OF invit-
| ing him to visit the palace. He was
| treated in SO royal a manner and tempt
ed with so many and such wonderful
dainties, that he died soon after re-
turning home of f. OF indigestion
So much Of what you are to eat and
| now a word on table manners For
| eigners complain that we Americans
have conspicuously poor manners at
the table. They complain that we
chew with our mouths open, put in